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Telkom has been plunged into crisis following the release of damaging dossiers that accuse top management of poor decision-making and even corrupt and irregular dealings

Telkom has been thrown into crisis by allegations of widespread corruption at the fixed-line operator’s most senior levels that have been sent to cabinet ministers and parliament as well as state and industry watchdog bodies

Neotel and Vodacom have called on their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to scrap the universal service obligations they agreed to when they were licensed. Instead, they want

A short distance off the highway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, not far from the Samrand offramp north of Midrand, is a large but otherwise nondescript building. To the casual observer

Unbundling the local loop is the last step to making SA’s telecommunications landscape fully competitive, says Neotel chief technology officer Angus Hay. Hay tells TechCentral that allowing other operators

Arms-deal middleman Fana Hlongwane financed a R4m home for Siphiwe Nyanda, the president’s new parliamentary counsellor, when Nyanda prepared to step down as defence force chief five years ago

Altech’s largest subsidiary, Autopage Cellular, is keen to expand beyond its core business as a cellphone service provider. This comes as pressure

The BlackBerry. Traditionally used by men in grey suits — bankers, accountants and lawyers. If you used a BlackBerry, you were a corporate nerd, tied to your company’s e-mail system.

Huge Group trumpeted in a press release on Thursday about how it has turned around its fortunes financially, reporting a profit in the six months to 31 August 2010. But a closer reading

Standard Bank will lease space in its new mega data centre in Midrand to telecommunications operators and other companies as it is only able to use a small portion of the space in the expansive facility for its own needs.